Car-fender.



PATENTBD AUG. 2a, 1906.

F. WITSGH.

,GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18,1906.

. provide a street-car fender which will be excasing is provided with avertical side wall 2, and these side walls are UNITED s'rATns'PATENTOFFICE.

FRANZ WITSCH, OF ALLESGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

l 0. 829,821. .Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Align 28,1.9.0.6.

Application led May 18, 1906. Serial No. 317.606.

novel form of fender which can be readily attached to a street-car tosave the lives of persons run down by the car.

Another object ofmy invention is to provide a car-fender which will beautomatic and positive inits action and free from all danger of beinginjured when striking a person or object.

A further objectof thisinvention is to provide afender which will benormally elevated, but which will be automatically lowered when a personor object is about to be struck by a car.

A 'still further object of this invention is to tremely simple inconstruction, strong and durablefcomparatively inexpensive tomanufacture, and highly efficient for the purposes for which it is used.

With the above and other objects in view, which will more readily appearas the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consistsin the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to behereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out inthe claims, and, referring to the drawings accompanying thisapplication, l' te numerals of reference designate corresponding partsthroughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 is a fragmentary sideelevation of acar equipped with my improved fender. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal sectional view of the fender detached from a car. Fig. 3 isa longi tudinal sectional view of one of the casings of the fender. Fig.4 is a rear elevation of the fender, and Fig. 5 is a plan of a plateforming part of the fender.

To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved fender of twocasings 1 1, `which form the sides of the fender. Each connectedtogether plate 3. The rear by an inclined transverse nl Improvements j 11 1 are provided with rear ends of said slots .being inclined, as at14"14. Between ,the casings 1 iplate 15, having .a beveled ends of thecasings are further braced by a ltransverse bar 4, which is connected tothe casings 1 1 by springs 5 5. The bar 4 is provided with avertically-disposed yoke, the object of which will be hereinafterdescribed.

The fender construction just described is secured to a car 7 byfastening the transverse `plate 3 to the dashboard 8 of the car, whilethe side walls 2 2 of (the fender have their rear edges out away, asat9, .to engage and l rest upon the bumper or platform 10 of the car.

The confronting side walls of the casings slots 11 and 12, the

upper face 16. two outwardlyextend into the `The plate is provided withextending arms 17, which l slots 12 12 of the casings 1 1 and areconnected to springs 18 18, mounted within said casings. The plate 15 isalso provided with outwardly-extending pins 19 19, which protrude intothe slots 11 11 of the casings 1 1, the object of which will presentlyappear. The rear edge of the plate 15 is provided with a transversestrip 20, carrying lugs 21 21. Between the lugs 21 21 is pivotallymounted a latch 22, said latch being adapted to engage a cleat 23,Vcarried by the body of the car. 7

The transversey bar 4 is provided with forwardly-extending rods 24 24,which extend through the casings 1 1 and have their forward endsconnected with a transverse rod 25, said rod extending crosswis'e of thecar 1 is mounted a' from the forward end of one casing to the other.

In practice the plate wardly until the latch 22 verse cleat 23 of thecar. The latch is normally held in engagement with the cleat by thevertically-disposed yoke 6 of the transverse bar 4. When the plate is inits rearward position, said plate will be elevated by the inclined ends14 14 of the slots 11 and 12 of the casings 1, the forward end of theplate 15 being elevated in the slot 11 through theA medium of the pins19 19, while the rearward end of the plate will beelevated in the slots12 by the arms 17 17 of said plate. Should a person or object strike thetransverse rod 25, the latch 22 will be released through the medium ofthe rearward movement of the transverse bar 4, which is moved by therods 24 24. The rearward movement of the transverse bar 4 permits ofthe, latch dropping by IOO IIO

gravity, and as the springs 18 18 have been extended within the casings1 1 by the rearward movement of the plate 15 the release of plate 15 ismoved inwardly, also the rod 25,

said rod being held until the latch 22 is ele-V vated to engage thecleat 23, at which time the rod 25 is released, permitting the bari 4and the yoke 6 to return to their normal position and temporarilysupport said latch.

My improved fender is preferably constructed of light and durable metal,and the plate 15 of said fender may be provided with a cushion to breakthe fall of persons or objects upon the same.

Such changes in the construction and operation of my improved fender asare permissible by the scope of the appended claims may be resorted towithout departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim, and d esire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fender, the combination with a car, a cleat carried by said car,of casings secured to said car, a plate mounted between said Q i s'aaezicasings, a latch carried by said plate and adapted to engage said cleat,means to hold said latch in engagement with said cleat, means actuatedin front of said plate to re- 35 lease said latch, means to elevate saidplate, substantially as described. l

2. The combination with a car, a cleat carried by said car, of a fenderconsisting of two casings, a plate mounted between said cas- 4o ings,means to lock said plate in engagement with said cleat, means to releasesaid plate, from said cleat, substantially as described.

3. In a fender, the combination with a car, of two casings, a plateslidabl mounted be- 45 tween said casings, means to liiold said plate atthe rear ends of said casings, means to elevate said plate, and meansactuated in front of said plate to release'said plate, substantially asdescribed. 5o 4. In a fender, the combination with a car, of twocasings, a spring-held plate slidably mounted between said casings,means to hold said plate in an elevated position, Vand means to releasethe first-named means, sub- 5 5 stantially as described. y In testimonywhereof I afx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANZ WITSCH.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SnoLoviTZ, E. E. POTTER.

